Angelina Jolie has a new movie premiering at the Venice Film Festival this week, and a very special person helped her promote it. In a Vanity Fair first look of her movie Maria, eagled-eyed fans noticed that the exclusive on-set photos were taken by none other than Jolie’s 20-year-old son Pax!
In all the photos, shared by Vanity Fair on Aug. 23, the credit is given to Pax Jolie-Pitt, who Jolie shares with estranged ex Brad Pitt. Jolie is dressed like Maria Callas, a renowned opera singer of the 20th century. She is wearing a red dress with diamond jewelry and her dark brown hair up in an old-fashioned updo. In another photo, she wore a brown jacket with a white fur trim, a matching brown hat, and a diamond brooch as she sat in a restaurant in the scene. Both pictures are taken from an onlooker’s perspective, as Jolie takes notes on her scene. The article doesn’t even mention Pax except for the photo credit, but it’s clear he is very talented!
Pax is very supportive of his mom. In October, Pax and his older brother Maddox, 23, were spotted on set with their mom (and now we know Pax must have been taking pictures at the time). Another time, Pax and his siblings Zahara, 19, and Knox, 16, visited their mom’s fashion house Atelier Jolie.
Pax seems to be very interested in following in his mom’s footsteps. He made a cameo in Jolie’s 2014 film Maleficent, voiced a character in Jolie’s 2016 film Kung Fu Panda 3, and acted with Jolie and Maddox on the 2017’s First They Killed My Father, and worked in the assistant director department on 2024’s Without Blood, which Jolie directed, per PEOPLE.
Jolie, who also shares Shiloh, 18, and Vivienne, 16, with Pitt, is very proud of all of her kids. “I was 26 when I became a mother,” she said in a Sept. 2023 interview with Vogue. “My entire life changed,” Jolie added. “Having children saved me — and taught me to be in this world differently.”
“I think, recently, I would’ve gone under in a much darker way had I not wanted to live for them,” she continued. “They’re better than me, because you want your children to be. Of course I’m the mother, and hopefully that safe place for them and that stability. But I’m also the one that they laugh at — and I see them taking over so many different aspects of our family.”
Angelina Jolie is a mom of six — and the way she dotes on her kids is adorable!
